原文
Gilbert reached across the aisle, picked up the end of Anne's long red
braid, held it out at arm's length and said in a piercing whisper:
"Carrots! Carrots!"
Then Anne looked at him with a vengeance!
She did more than look. She sprang to her feet, her bright fancies fallen into cureless ruin. She flashed one indignant glance at Gilbert from eyes whose angry sparkle was swiftly quenched in equally angry tears.
"You mean, hateful boy!" she exclaimed passionately. "How dare you!"
And then--thwack! Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it--slate not head--clear across.
語彙など
- pick up:手に取る
- braid:お下げ髪
- piercing:鋭い,つんざく
- with a vengeance:驚くほど強く,激しく
- spring to one's feet:はじかれたように立ち上がる
- fancy:空想,夢
- fall into ruin:荒廃する,倒壊する
- cureless:救済できない
- flash:(瞳を)輝かせる
- indignant:憤った,怒った
- sparkle:きらめき
- swiftly:急速に
- quench:急冷する
- mean:意地悪な
- passionately:激しく,激怒して
- thwack:〜をピシャリと打つ
- crack:割る
- clear:きれいな
- across:十字形に交差して